In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted A/RES/70/1, 2015, a resolution that entails 17 integrative and indivisible UN Sustainable Development Goals, by the name of 2030 Agenda, a plan of action that calls for the transformation of the world to ecologically, economically and socially sustainable planet where peace and prosperity endure. With its indivisibility and universality characteristics, the Agenda puzzled the world states, demanding a new form of governance style for its realization. With the use of qualitative research methodology, this thesis, therefore, examines how the Agenda's policies are coordinated by the Swedish Government Agencies and what activities and mechanisms they use to integrate the Agenda' policies into their daily operational activities. Through collaborative governance and sociological institutionalism theoretical lens, results show that Government agencies use several mechanisms such as collaboration, dissemination of knowledge, leadership and communications to enhance the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Sweden. Nevertheless, some challenges hinder the agencies from working with the Agenda on a full scale, that if addressed properly, it could have improved the current conditions.

This preliminary study examines interactions and experiences of immigrants with Swedish governmental agencies and factors that may affect variation in how these agencies interact with immigrants. Fifteen international students were interviewed, and their experiences with government agencies were evaluated to identify and describe problems they encountered in these interactions. Research questions included whether international students face barriers accessing public resources, are they treated poorly by agency representatives, are they provided sufficient information, and does their treatment differ depending on their nationality? The results show that although students do not perceive that they are being discriminated against, the types of problems encountered and ability to resolve issues varied according to nationality. Participants from Eastern and Southern regions encountered problems more frequently than other international students interviewed, and the students in the Southern group also had more complicated experiences with the bureaucracy. Additional study is needed to identify the extent to which these trends are reflected in the general immigrant population and possible means of addressing issues of bias in how agencies interact with clients of different backgrounds.